Soviet Satellite School Brainwashes Teens (The note that floored a jaded political combatant)WOW

Cornell Review ^ | 2/18/2003 | Joseph J. Sabia

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Evening to you Captain and bump again!

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We should start conservative schools!

[ladylib]

Sort of like this:

http://www.accsedu.org/

Schools that celebrate Western culture and run by sensible people.

[ChemistCat]

I've got my kids in one run by the Lutherans. Tuition for three: $510/month. Some cars cost more than that. (Plus $60/week for childcare for the kindergartner, as kindergarten is half day.) I've never been mad at the teachers, they are all Reagan conservatives, and I know my kids are safe at school. That's truly PRICELESS.

[secretagent]

Compulsion schooling and indoctrination fit each other.

[Libertina]

Separation of School & State

[duvausa]

Been there. My son was at USC during the 2000 election—when his friends found out he was voting for Bush they started calling him a Nazi. It stuck for weeks. And USC is probably more conservative than most big universities.

[Congressman Billybob]

This is a very powerful story that should be cited as widely as possible. Those who have the links should send this to Brit Hume, O'Reilly and others at Fox News. I say the same as this writer, Wow!

Congressman Billybob

[Behind Liberal Lines]

This is the Ithaca taxpayer-funded "alternative" (ie, hippie) school that let's students graduate in majors like basket weaving and political activism, and invited convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal to be its graduation speaker .

No surprise that they would discourage any thing but ultra-liberal thought.

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Soaring Feather]

City of Evil bump

[xm177e2]

That's the sort of thing I would expect from a cult... weird, very weird.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The Ithaca School system was, at least a few years ago, an adherant to that "invented spelling" nonsense, in which teachers don't correct spelling errors so as not to stifle the child's creativity.

That being said, I agree that it sounds like the poor kid was terrified.

As noted in an earlier post, Ithaca's ACS truly is a Soviet style indoctrination center. It's where they most liberal of the liberal send their kids.

[Kryptonite]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/839557/posts

[Behind Liberal Lines]

That's the sort of thing I would expect from a cult... weird, very weird.

Ithaca is run like a giant liberal cult.

Ithaca is host to two colleges, Cornell U (aptly nick-named "the Big Red") and Ithaca College (which flies the gay flag over its campus), the two major employers in the area. They insure that a disproportionate amount of "ivory tower liberals" dominate the city.

Here are few typical Ithacans:

Locating copies of National Review or the American Spectator requires a trip out of the City, while Ithaca magazine racks remain well-stocked with copies of The Progressive, and The Nation. Readers interested in exposing themselves to a full range of national opinion are simply out of luck.

As a result of this dominiance, politics in Ithaca runs the gamet from "liberal" to "communist."

For years, the town had an openly socialist mayor. They later elected him to the school board.

Even today, the City and County governments are dominated by democrats and Green party members. Ithaca is so "Green" that Ralph Nader got more votes in Ithaca than George W. Bush, and the NYS Green Party held its 2002 nominating convention there. The current Chair of the County Legislature is a radical former anti-war protester, self-described hippie, who says "My values haven't changed, just my tactics."

As a result, we get lunacy like spending $500,000 to install solar panels on the new library (in cold, dark, upstate NY).

Even law enforcement is subject to political correctness. The outgoing police chief's major concern was "pushing for departmental diversity." The acting chief was chosen simply because they wanted a woman, and now spends her time attending topless protests .

To make matters worse, the liberals who dominate Ithaca work overtime to impose their ultra liberal agenda on the area children. As the local newspaper recently put it, “In most places, youngsters spend their summers camping, or at the mountains or the beach. In Ithaca, they learn how to become social activists.”

The School District has mandated that elementary school students in the first and second grades be graded on how well they "respect others of varying cultures, genders, experiences, and abilities." It's even listed on the schools' report card. Despite this alleged tolerance, a student who was found reading the bible on her lunch hour was chatised for doing so. Another was directed not to bring a book about Christmas to school.

These schools churn out "educated idiots," who are so liberal, they write editorials that argue "Bin Laden is Human too."

Need more proof? Do a search for "Ithaca" here at FR. You'll see a near daily dose of institutionalized, unfettered, liberal idiocy.

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Its the kind of story that needs exposure. You are right. I find by bumping and cross threading the link back to stories does the trick.

But if someone has a direct line into the media. Please help get it out.

[Kryptonite]

I'd like to see Joe on The O'Reilly Factor.

Or maybe with Ann Coulter on Hannity & Colmes.

[Fixit]

Meanwhile, in Bizarro Ithaca...

(Ithaca, NY) Pro-Democracy demonstrators burn a PRI flag on
the Ithaca Commons. The demonstrators gathered to
protest Ithaca's resolution opposing the use of force
to free the Iraqi people. (Satire-The Comedian)

[TLBSHOW]

did you read his interview with Ann Coulter?

[Kryptonite]

No. Is it a treat?